JAX London rocks!
Hint: it’s not all about Java and Big Data played a big role.
From 28 to 30 October 2013 the JAX London took place and I had the pleasure to be there. I met so many cool people, had so many great chats on the side and learned about interesting stuff that it’s hard to find a starting point. Oh well, here we go …
From Richard Pijnenburg of Elasticsearch I learned about logstash, an open source tool for managing events and logs:
Nathan Bijnens (DataCrunchers) gave a very interesting talk on `A Real-Time Architecture Using Hadoop & Storm`, essentially explaining how to apply the Lambda Architecture:
I then got to meet Christoph Engelbert (Hazelcast Inc.) and had a great chat about how versatile Hazelcast—an open source in-memory data grid we’re also utilising in Apache Drill—is. Sorry Chris, the pic I took is not really presentable, but here is the cool book I got from you guys, thanks again!
I would then sit in Ian Robinson’s awesome session on `Designing and Building a Graph Database Application`. Ian is from Neo Technology, and they provide Neo4j, one of the leading graph databases:
I very much enjoyed SoundCloud’s Bruno Sá, who talked about `Data Democratization at SoundCloud`, a run-down on their BI infrastructure,using Hadoop/EMR, Red Shift and Tableau:
Last but not least, I’d like to point out Dwight Merriman’s keynote on `Databases and Agile Development`. Dwight, who’s a founder of MongoDB impressed the audience, being equally proficient in talking about RoI of NoSQL databases as in mastering the command line—he did some live shell commands with Mongo; finally, an exec who can code ;)
Oh. Right. I also had the pleasure to talk about the status of Apache Drill—check out the slide deck and the GitHub repo underlying the live demo I gave (thanks to Nathan for taking the pic):
To sum up: it was a great event, with great people and topics (esp. around the Big Data track). Big kudos to the organisers as well and I’m definitely looking forward to the next JAX.
